On 10/16/2012 05:57 AM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > On 10/16/12 01:26, Robert van Leeuwen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I want to make sure that we can keep mounting gluster volumes even if >> one node is down. >> For this we would need something to keep the mount point highly >> available. >> Am I safe to assume that putting port 24007 behind our load-balancer >> will do this? >> As far as I can see regular gluster traffic does not use this port and >> it looks like it is used for the mount process. >> >> Is this correct? >> Can I safely do this or will bad things happen? > > I use keepalived to keep a well known IP available for the volume info > to be retrieved from. Once the client has the volume info, it talks > directly to the bricks. > > Unless you are NFS mounting the volume... > Use round-robin DNS or the backupvolfile-server mount option.
